Overview
The CCC prioritizes transformation through training and education, treatment and healing, and service and outreach emphasizing liberation, empowerment, and evidence to address adverse experiences. Herein, we train clinicians to provide specialized care to disenfranchised communities under the supervision of informed leaders/clinicians.
It is the mission of the Collective Care Center to be a premier clinic in the area of evidence-based responsive treatment of socioemotional distress through both therapy and assessment. Additionally, we endeavor to engage in community education and comprehensive clinical training.
The CCC annually provides clinical services (therapy and assessment) to ~100 individuals and has trained 1,000 clinicians to do the same, nationally and internationally.
Therapy/Assessment Services
The CCC provides accessible individual, family, and group therapy. Individuals from various backgrounds experience emotional distress due to consistent exposure to systemic issues. This exposure can lead to feelings such as sadness, anxiety, worry, anger, frustration, and hopelessness. Additionally, these individuals can become stressed and worried because they feel that they cannot control or respond to adversity in ways that feel helpful to them and will keep them and the people they care about safe. The experience of these feelings can contribute to difficulties in relationships with friends and families, challenges on the job, and a general lack of mental wellness.
Community Engagement, Partnerships, and Education
In addition to the CCC’s in-house clinic at Spalding University, the CCC provides trauma and assessment services at satellite sites throughout Louisville.
The CCC has conducted a number of local, national, and international presentations that equip mental health networks and other organizations with the knowledge and skill needed improve mental health outcomes.
Director, Collective Care Center
Dr. Gardner is an alumna of Rutgers University where she studied psychology and music. She earned a MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Indiana State University, and a MA and PsyD in Clinical Psychology from Spalding University. She completed her internship at the University of Illinois at Chicago where she worked with college students and survivors of political torture, before completing her postdoctoral fellowship within Student Wellness at The University of Chicago. Dr. Gardner has trained in a wide array of mental health settings including residential treatment, juvenile detention, community mental health clinics, private practice, and college counseling centers. Dr. Gardner is an integrationist. She believes in the nature of collective healing and the value of being grounded in both identity and community. Thus, her approach to therapy (thinking about, teaching about, and doing) is collaborative, contextually informed, trauma informed, affirmative, and prioritizes liberation. Dr. Gardner works to reconcile the relationship between evidence and practice for oppressed people as she establishes her place in the field of psychology through clinical work, leadership, and in the classroom.
CCC Student Clinicians
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